Letter: Ask questions about history

Nick Nixon, Charleston

Thursday

May 10, 2018 at 12:01 AM

"How I See It" in the Times Record on April 14 once again tells of Union liberators freeing slaves in Dixie. History says not. President Lincoln's decree freed slaves in the South; some northern states kept their slaves until sometime after the war was over. Northern states, too, had Jim Crow laws after that war.

Yes, McKinley's statue ought to be taken down for the 90 million acres of land stolen from the Indians that he OK'd. Why do we have to have two sets of laws in this land, one for the Indians and another for everybody else?

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